Your Dungeons!

[sixsideddice]

AWESOME Nik,

you are a God amongst men.

I can`t believe some of the standards of painting I`m seeing here - I`m totally blown away by it all.

Look forward to seeing your thoughts on Pulp and Egyptian.


Six 

[Germy]

I've just rediscovered a great stone painting tutorial.
Stone Painting Guide
I gave it a try yesterday, mine didn't come out as well as the tutorial but I was still pleased with the results. Unfortunately it was quite a lengthly
process. Not sure I could do a whole dungeon like it  

[Cyril]

You know Germy, when I saw your work I wondered how much time you spent for it !
I would never have the courage to paint brick by brick...

[Germy]

I think I will have to come up with a simpler method. Lovely as the results are, I don't have the time to as you say paint every brick! 
Also another point to remember is what ever technique you pick you need to be able to do it consistantly. Fine if you paint it all in one go but my guess is adding bits of dungeon later might give you a headache to get it to match! 

[nikharwood]

That's a great tutorial with really nice results...but I'm not that patient 

[fred.]

After having to wait a couple of hours for the rain to stop, yesterday morning, I was able to finally get to the shed so I could spray my newly arrived dungeon black.

It dried fairly quickly as it was now very sunny, British weather 

A couple of heavy dry brushes of dark brown with a fairly large brush took 45 minutes. So I have no idea how Nik did the whole thing in 40 mins.

After a mid brown layer I painted a few bricks/tiles red-brown, some greenish and a few dark yellow. Then I dry brushed / stippled lots of different sandy colours over the top of everything. I think I own too many shades of 'sand' paint. This probably took 2-3 more Harwoods to paint.

Photos taken on iPhone and hosted on Picasa as I'm having PC issues
http://picasaweb.google.com/114091746313103705211/Dungeon

[nikharwood]

So I have no idea how Nik did the whole thing in 40 mins...

This probably took 2-3 more Harwoods to paint.

Photos taken on iPhone and hosted on Picasa as I'm having PC issues
http://picasaweb.google.com/114091746313103705211/Dungeon

I didn't paint anything - just overbrushes & straight to stippling...and I was working as fast as I could, downhill & with the wind behind me 

I like the idea of a 'Harwood' being a unit of time y'know...and so would my dad & his father [both horologists  ]

It's looking good though - when are you going to bung some dice at it & what will you play?

[fred.]

It's getting there - might go for a bit more sand as it looks a bit dark this morning.

Need to do the furniture and monsters but have a couple of days off this week so they may get done quite soon.

Probably give the dungeon world rules a whirl - with some randomisation thrown in to determine the layout. My kids might be interested in playing as well.

[fred.]

Painting speed is odd - apart from picking out a few tiles I pretty much went for dry brushing. But even though it was slower than your speed painting it still only took a couple of hours to get the whole dungeon looking good - which really makes this an easy project to get into and to make some real progress with.

Glad you like my new unit of measurement. I think it is a measure of amount painted in a period of time - rather than just a measure if time :-)

[Leon]

Good stuff, the different coloured tiles aren't too overpowering and give a nice effect.

[nikharwood]

...it still only took a couple of hours to get the whole dungeon looking good - which really makes this an easy project to get into and to make some real progress with.

Couldn't agree more 

[Cyril]

Ok I've just finished the basing of some monsters, here are some results:

some skeletons by cyril F, on Flickr

Sorcerer Merzototh's silent guard by cyril F, on Flickr

Wandering orcs.. by cyril F, on Flickr
Last step: the heroes !

[nikharwood]

Very nice Cyril 

[fred.]

They look good Cyril.

[fred.]

In fact inspired my to try some photos of my own